Covered dish



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COVERED DISH. No. 341,271 Patented May 4, 1886.v

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND A. PARKER, OF \VAIJLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT.

COVERED DISH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,271, dated May 4,1886.

Application filed January 2, 1856.

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDMUND A. PARKER, of WVallingford, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Covered Dishes; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a perspective view of the upper portion of the dish, showing the cover and its connection; Fig. 2, a vertical central section, showing the cover as lifted from the ring on one side, and the cover and ring as raised on the opposite side in broken lines; Fig. 3, a modification in the method ofhinging the cover to the dish.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of covered dishes in which the cover is attached to the dish, and so that it may be opened by turning it as upon a hinge. This class of dishes are used for table and toilet purposes. If hinged to one side of the dish, the cover will open in but one direction.

The object of my invention is to construct the cover in its attachment to the dish so that it may be opened from one side, or from the opposite side, and having combined therewith a bail to which the cover is hung, so that by turning the bail to one side or the other the cover will be correspondingly opened; and in such construction, as more fully hereinafter described, my invention consists.

A represents the body of the dish, which may be of any shape or style, according to the purpose for which the dish is employed. I represent only the upper portion of a dish.

13 is a ring, which is hinged to one side of the body of the dish, as at a, and so that it may turn therefrom, lifting from the opposite side.

0 is the cover, hinged to the ring at a point directly opposite the hinge a, and so that the cover may lift from the opposite side of the ring, as seen in Fig. 2. The cover opening from the ring leaves the cover resting on the dish, but when lifting from the opposite side, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 2, then the ring Serial No. 157,319. (No model.)

| is turned up as a part of the cover. Thus the cover is adapted to be opened from either one side or the other.

To the body of the dish a bail, D, is hung upon pivots a, directly opposite each other, the bail extending up over the cover, and to the bail a link, E, is hung, extending down, its lower end hung or pivoted to the cover, the plane of the bail and link being parallel with and between the two hinges, and so that if the bail be turned toward the hinge between the cover and the ring, as seen in Fig. 2, the cover will be opened accordingly, or if the bail be swung in the opposite direction then the cover and ring will be opened accordingly, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 2.

As represented in the illustration, the dish is of circular shape, and the cover and ring of corresponding shape, but it will be understood that the shape of the cover and of the ring is made to correspond to the shape of the dish, or may be round, square, ,or other desirable shape.

The ring may be dispensed with, the cover 0 constructed with a pintle, e, on one side and diametrically opposite a like pintle, f, the pintles setting, respectively, into a corresponding seat at the two sides of the dish, as seen in Fig. 3. Thebail D is hung to the dish in the same manner as before described, with the link E extending therefrom, hung to the cover, and so that as the bail is turned to one side or the other the cover will be opened accordingly, as seen in Fig. 3, the pintle lifting from its seat on one side when turned toward the opposite side. This modification makes a simple application of the pintle with its link to a double hinge-cover; but the employment of the ring with the cover gives to the dish a neater and more finished appearance, and is preferred.

The ring and cover, with their hinges at opposite points, may be employed without the bail, thus enabling the cover to be opened from either one side or the other, as the case may be, by simply applying the'hand to the "cover. I therefore, while preferring the bail and the link connection between it and the cover, do not wish to be understood as limiting my invention to its combination with the cover.

I am aware of United States Patent No. 107,598 and No. 248,098, and claim nothing therein shown or described.

I claim- 1. The herein-described improvement in covered dishes, consisting in the combination of the dish, the cover adapted to close said dish and to be turned therefrom on either of the two bearings diametrically opposite each other, with a bail hung to the dish outside the cover intermediate between the said two bearings, and with a link between the bail and cover connecting the two, substantially as de scribed, and whereby in turning the bail to one side or the other the cover will be opened from the opposite side.

2. In a covered dish, a ring hinged to the body of the dish upon one side, combined with a cover hinged to the said ring upon the side opposite the hinge, between the cover and the ring, substantially as described.

3. In a covered dish, a ring hinged to the body of the dish upon one side, combined with a cover hinged to the said ring upon the side opposite the hinge between the cover and the ring, with a bail hung to the body of the dish between and in a plane parallel with the said hinges, and a link between said bail and cover connecting the two, substantially as described.

EDMUND A. PARKER.

WVitnesses:

F. T. BRISTOLL, W. B. HALL. 

